This topic is for sharing things you think might be AI generated, or aren’t sure about, which aren’t disclosed as AI. I’d like some feedback on whether people agree or disagree that stuff is AI, or if they’re using different patterns to spot AI than I am.
I’m also worried that some people are learning/copying writing style from AI, so then they sound like AIs but aren’t.
I think I stop reading over half the time when I think something is AI. I don’t want to have many false positives.
As a reminder: AI is only allowed on this forum if clearly labelled as AI.
config/routes.rb — total count and ratio of RESTful resources to custom one-off routes. 500 custom routes isn’t a style problem — it’s an architecture one.
I got to this “'it’s not X, it’s Y” pattern (with an mdash in it for good measure) and thought it’s AI.
edit: my non-curly quotes got modified when I posted. Maybe it’s not such a great rule-of-thumb after all.
Someone noticed that Jack Dorsey (seemingly) used AI to write a message announcing the firing of his employees:
They noticed it because AI tends to use non-curly apostrophes and quotes (e.g., I’m vs I’m and “quote” vs “quote”). They noticed that most of Dorsey’s message used non-curly apostrophes except for one part which he must’ve edited or inserted/written himself.
Incidentally, I also noticed that AI uses non-curly apostrophes and quotes myself*, but it never occurred to me to use it an indication that something might be written by AI.
* At least the AIs that I use. And I haven’t checked if AI does it all the time or just sometimes.
I’ve read a bit of twitter lately, and so much of it feels AI generated. There’s a writing style that people seem to try and use that’s super impactful even for mundane things.
(re messi video) – the description has the AI writing thing:
Most players would fade out.
Messi did the opposite.
The voice also might be AI generated. It’s not generic enough that I recognize it but it’s super easy to clone your own voice, and it has that like consistent pacing that struggles to actually emphasize things well.
WRT website layouts, I can tell so easily now when something looks AI generated. IDK why exactly – not enough to get rid of it. Definitely some things like common fonts stand out, but maybe there’s little signals too – thoughts like why would a human choose to do X or put Y there? and where it doesn’t make as much sense. Like it’s a great designer who got lazy at the last minute or something.
I think I can guess the family of model most of the time (gemini, claude, gpt – though mostly people don’t use gpt much anymore).
On TikTok, you can block comments with keywords (like AI, LLM, claude, gpt, etc.) This has legit purposes for anti-harassment, anti-doxing, reasonable moderation, etc., but I just realized that it also may be a reason for the lack of comments accusing AI posts of being AI…
Also I think a lot of people who don’t like AI haven’t used AI enough to recognize AI writing well. I was way worse at spotting AI before I used it more. Related to that, I don’t know how to spot AI website design. It’s hard to spot some types of AI without experience using it. AI images can be easier to spot, e.g. you can learn to spot 6 fingers and other image errors without using AI image creators. As AI image generators improve, I think people who use them a lot will have a bigger advantage at spotting them.
I think the short essay he’s retweeting is AI. This is notable because he’s an influential billionaire with two million Twitter followers.
After I thought it was AI myself, I saw the top reply tweet on my feed:
Bill I love your posts, but almost every long post you RT has been generated with ChatGPT.
I have no problem with people using ChatGPT as a tool, but if you’re posting stuff without edits - a common feature of these posts - it’s basically just sharing slop.
In the first video, the first 20 seconds, I noticed two things:
When the speaker talks about how bad the crash(?) was, that a number of things happened like an investigation was opened, a case got built, and got 40 states to join. Those things being listed off and the lack of “enthusiasm” in her voice makes me think it’s an ai script. I think she does something similar in the next few sentences. That’s when she says: that’s when trump administration killed it, behind closed doors, without telling judge, jury, or their own prosecutor.
I’m not that familiar with ai scripts so im not sure if it’s ai or not. I didn’t know people were using ai scripts. I usually watch the same youtubers like letsplayers. I don’t know if they use ai scripts. Stuff i watch tho is from tiktok, youtube shorts, and insta. Sometimes. I notice myself rolling my eyes listening to something that sounds trite but not that if it’s ai voice. I don’t know what all that means.
edit: in the second to last sentence in the last paragraph I think I meant “AI script”. I’m not sure actually, but stuff that sounds fake or made by ai.
I agree and it lines up with my experience (especially the last few months).
Thinking about the website design stuff, it really didn’t take me very long to start noticing. Within tens of generations I was starting to get annoyed with repetitions. I’d estimate I’ve generated less than 100 designs total myself (and often I’d get 5+ different designs at once). I think recognizing AI writing (excluding via popular heuristics) takes longer to develop.
Also, there are a lot of people out there who have interacted with AI a lot but not in the same way you or I would. Things like long chatgpt threads, AI companionship services, falling in love with AI, AI psychosis, etc. Would they develop the same skill? I am not sure.
